ekoah I
Bond Dinner June 3, Wit
as Speaker, Will Honor Mrs. M thee is i ra r el
bassador to Brazil and previously
as deputy permanent representa-
tive and minister plenipotentiary
dance 6:30 p.m.. June 3 at Cong. ' to the UN.
Educated at the University L'Aii-
Shaarey Zedek, Robert Brody, Is-
Har-
rore. Shanghai. China,
rael Bond chairman, announced.
He stressed the special signific vard University. Tekoah began his
diplomatic
serv-
ance of the occasion, which will . career in Israel's
give Detroiters an opportunity of ice two decades ago in the capacity
welcoming Israel's chief spokes- of deputy legal adviser to the
man at the United Nations, Yosef ministry for foreign affairs and
Tekoah, who has gained wide re- head of its treaties section. He has
The 21st Israel anniversary cele-
bration sponsored by Israel Bonds
kill be in the form of a dinner and
mown as his country's permanent
UN representative in the delibera
lions of the international organiza-
tion since the beginning of 1968.
One of Israel's leading diplo-
mats, Tekoah served as ambas-
sador to the USSR from 1961 to
1965. when be was named direc-
tor general of the foreign minis-
try, a post he held until 1968. He
has also served as Israel's am-
on frequent occasions played a key
role in Arab-Israel affairs and is
considered one of the most experi-
enced and knowledgeable spokes-
men for Israel in this field.
Brody stated that the anniversary
celebration on June 3 will pay tri-
bute to the career of Mrs. Golda
?Heir, Israel's new prime minister.
and to the people of Israel. Reser-
vations for the dinner may be
Israel's Aid to Africa Brings
Mi xed Blessings, Writer Says
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israel's
long-range program of aid to Afri-
can countries has had mixed re-
sults and caused some disillusion-
ment among Israelis. the Washing-
ton Post reported in a dispatch
from Nairobi.
Correspondent Stanley Nleisler
wrote that Israel may be small and
poor, but most black African coun-
tries see it as powerful and influ
ential and ever present."
The correspondent cited the ex-
ample of the Central African Re-
public, where the Israeli assistance
program is larger than the Ameri-
can one. The Israelis have built a
small industrial center, organized
a movement for 3.000 boys and de-
veloped six farm settlements.
Since 1958, Israel has sent more
than 1.700 technicians to Africa.
Many Israelis, examining the
PITTSBURGH (JTA)—A psychi-
atry professor at the University of
Southern California believes that
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Jews are inhibited from taking
their own lives because of religious
injunctions and because "The Jew-
ish people are too interested in life,
made by contacting
production, and creativity for sui-
Greenfield,
or
by
Bond office, 24611
cide."
phoning 352-6770.
Those reason were advanced by
Dr. Norman Farberow, co-director
of
the Los Angeles Suicide Preven-
Czech Travel Laws
tion Center. to explain the fact that
May Be Revised;
the rate of suicide among Jews is
lower than the national average.
Would Affect Jews
Dr. Farberow, speaking on "The
'LONDON (JTA) — Czechoslova-
kian legal experts are studying Self' at Duquesne University's in-
Czech laws governing travel stitute of Man, noted that an aver-
abroad with a view to revising sion to suicide is "imbedded in the
them, the ne w spaper Listy, organ Jewish religion. .. . There are reg-
of the Czech Writers Union, re-' ulations against it. Suicide isn't
ported in Prague.
honored. There is no religious cere-
The travel laws are of particu-
mony or mourner procedure."
lar concern to Czech Jews, who
Dr. Farberow was one of the
are looking forward to reunion I
ion
with their families abroad, and tol founders of the Suicide Prevent
the thousands who left the country Center which grew out of his work
in the wake of the Soviet-led in-! in the emergency ward of a Los
vasion last summer and found
haven in Western lands.
The expected new legislation will
probably be harsher than the pres-
eun! tyrigorous laws, according to
Angeles hospital. The Center is
open 24 hmirs a day to take calls
ti4u, would-be suicides whom its
staff attempts to dissuade by ra-
tional discussion of the caller's
problems.
Existing Czech law provides
for jail terms of from six months
record. were reported to feel that
to five years for illegal depar-
African support after the Six-Day
ture from the country, or, alter-
War was half-hearted and that a
natively, loss of property and
lot of money - went down the
-corrective punishment." The
drain." The correspondent said
latter could refer to any one of
that Israeli African specialists dis.
pute this and cited the voting rec- many restrictions. Since 1956,
most persons convicted of illegal
ords of the Organization of African
departure have been pat on pro-
Unity and support at the United
bation.
Nations.
Government directives to the
In two key UN General Assembly
votes after the Six-Day War, the courts define illegal departure as
any
journey abroad not in the in-
votes by African members leaned
terests of the state. Among those
toward Israel, and the specialist: could be journeys to seek employ-
said that without African support. ment or to study abroad or any
the voting would have been lopsid- try to which a traveler's employer
objects.
edly against Israel.
8—Friday, May 16, 1969
Psychiatrist Tells Why Jew ish Suicide Rate Low
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mainly specialists in farming.
youth work and medicine — two-
thirds of all technicians Israel has
sent to the developing world in the
past decade, the correspondent re-
ported.
In the same period, more than
5.000 Africans were brought to Is-
rael for training, mainly in farm-
ing. cooperatives and community
development. Half of the foreign
trainees in Israel during that pe-
r iod have been Africans.
Israel keeps an embassy in
every independent black African
nation, except the Moslem coun-
tries of Mauritania, Sudan and
the Somali Republic. Only the
United States, France and Britain
are more active in those coun-
tries diplomatically.
According to Philp Ndegwa. the
permanent secretary of the Kenya
Economic Development Ministry,
"Israel is a poor country. She can-
not give us capital but in the field
of technical assistance she can do
a lot." Israel was reported to have
other programs to increase its in-
fluence in black Africa.
The correspondent declared that
Israel has trained or helped arm
the military forces of nine African
countries, particularly Uganda and
the Congo, and has increased its
small trade from $13,000,000 in
1964 to $24,000,000 in 1967. Solel
Boneh, a construction arm of the
Histadrut, Israel's Labor Federa-
tion, and Water Resources Devel-
opment International, an engineer-
ing firm, have won numerous con-
tracts.
Recently Israel changed its ap-
proach partly because of short-
ages of funds stemming from the
June 1967 war, with more em-
phasis on trade. Israeli Foreign
Ministry officials, looking for
other areas to influence, such as
Latin America, were reported to
have cut almost in half the num-
ber of technicians assigned to
African countries' while increas-
ing the number elsewhere.
It's thoughtful to give
the Smooth Canadian,
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